A Hero´s Journey

Psychological Concepts that Can Help Aspiring Writers. Famous psychologist Carl Jung described archetypes as universal patterns that are familiar in all stories.

Jungian archetypes are behaviors and ways of understanding the world that are highly developed but that we aren’t immediately aware of. Their existence is deduced through the analysis of myth, art, dreams, stories, and religion. Basically, they’re everywhere and even if you don’t speak another language, you’ll probably recognize archetypes in their art and culture.